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city. i've met the kids, young people come through it and i was very moved. so knowing you and knowing about covenant house, it was a no-brainer. but i felt very privileged to write the forward for it because it gave me a chance to recognize the fact that my dad, but for the kindness of others, would have been homeless himself. he was born to a single mother, the report. my father that exaggerates even more dramatically so he was not poor, he was just trying to. he couldn't afford the other two letters. it was the community that was very impact and very watchful of the children. and my father base with was taken in by another family, the pilgrims, who gave extraordinary love, capital fund on a trajectory forward. so what is going to go to college, people put dollar bills together so college became a reality for him. all these things which i call the conspiracy of love that have happened that made me join him today, but really starts with young people. what bothers me is, but our society, is
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judging from the so-called development strategy in our city, just looking at the campaign contributions is quite enlightening. two questions for you. the first is the role of the clintons when they were in arkansas. their relationship with the commodity investment. could you also talk about the good side of food and water. what are the implications that people need to start thinking about and the huge push into tracking throughout the united states and the keystone xl pipeline. >> absolutely. well, let me answer the question. that's really easy question. we basically have farmers and real people selling their rights because people in these areas are losing their farms and they can't pay their mortgages and it's part of the 40 years of agriculture policy. the downtown areas that are dependent upon agriculture are already drawing up and wal-mart has something to do with the process. wal-mart has a 70 to 90% market share. we should be growing food and not having these things where we are building prisons with the usda budget that's going to building things that have nothing to do with agri
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we believe in integrating two social impact of and economic for our city, for region and for the country in the world. >> host: by the way, since the original location? >> guest: now, we are in university city in west philadelphia. kind originally started in a very small downtown philadelphia and moved in university city, which we've helped make into a via brad arts and culture and economic club. >> host: once again, here is the book. it is "the spirit of compromise: why governing demands it and campaigning undermines it". amy gutmann and dennis thompson are the co-authors. this is booktv on c-span 2. >> if you want to compare people come you got to first while persuade them that their soul is in dire danger, headed for the ultimate bond fire of the existence. and for that, you need to label them followers of the devil,. diabolical human beings. so they look to the devil and the titis -- a very complex religion well structured. they looked among the titis and the sound issue, dtt called issue. i often refer to issue as the imminent hearing condition. the issue is on project boasts. issue
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post them to our will at facebook.com/.tv, or e-mail us at booktv@c-span.org. >> next, jeff speck, city planner and former director of design at the national endowment for the arts, argues that urban centers should be designed to better suit the dashing than automobiles. the author focuses on small to midsized cities, such as providence, rhode island, which according to the author, if redesigned to be more walkable, would improve the standard of living. >> good evening. what a great crowd. fantastic. i don't want to begin neglecting to mention a few things. one, i do really want to thank powell's books for being powell's books. and will continue to be powell's books, and to have me here. book tours are not with the use are not what they used to be, at least if you're me they're not. it cannot bill clinton or naomi wolf or whatever, it used to be that there were bookstores, as you probably know, bookstores all of the country. and now my book tours are basically town halls in seattle, house books here, politics and prose in d.c. one in new york, one in boston. and i said to my agent, fran
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so the vulnerability and the fragility of life, you get to see up close and personal in cities like ours here in new york and newark, new jersey, and it doesn't take that much effort to be there for a kid. and i see -- i was very happy during sandy, we were able to do some things to raise through covenant house and the cooperation of some extraordinary people, to raise a lot of money because it actually doesn't take that much money to give a person a doorway of hope, and the last thing i'll say on this, for me, i get very upset, because when i first became mayor, i had a metaphor that i clung to. i tell people, such an optimistic hopeful person, told people i'm a prisoner of hope. when we walked through city hall seven years ago, there were so many challenges and i would try to gird my team up and say we're prisoners of hope. we can do nothing but hope. now seven years later my metaphor is completely changed. i see powerfulfully transformative things happening, from the large parks expansion in the century, down housing market to the creativity of my team to double the production of affo
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city. and just look at the campaign contributions from those people, and that'll be quite enlightening. two questions for you. the first is could you talk about the role of the clintons when they were in arkansas, their relationship to commodity traders? and commodity investment, which is, i think, a very intriguing piece of this story. and could you also talk because of the food side of food and water, what are the food implications that people need to start thinking about in the huge push into fracking throughout the united states and the keystone xl pipeline, tar sands -- >> absolutely. well, let me answer the fracking one first, because that's a really easy, um, question. i mean, basically we have fracking, we have farmers and rural people selling their mineral rights because people in these areas are suffering. they're losing their farms, they can't put their kids, um, send them to college, they can't pay their mortgages. and it's part of the, um, the basically 40 years of bad agricult
city. and just look at the campaign contributions from those people, and that'll be quite enlightening. two questions for you. the first is could you talk about the role of the clintons when they were in arkansas, their relationship to commodity traders? and commodity investment, which is, i think, a very intriguing piece of this story. and could you also talk because of the food side of food and water, what are the food implications that people need to start thinking about in the huge push...
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city, for the region, and for the country in the world. estimate is this the of original location in the area? >> we are in the university city in which philadelphia. pennoyer originally started in what was then 83 sluve ball downtown city of philadelphia and moved to west philadelphia and what we call the university city which helped make into a very vibrant cultural. >> once again come here is the book. the spirit of compromise why government demands it and campaigning undermines it. amy gutmann and dennis thompson are the co-authors. this is book tv on c-span2. >>> from book tv recent visit to providence rhode island author and to the surprise when a journalist michael stanton talks about his book the prince of providence the rise and fall of america's most nefarious -- notorious mayor. >> it's the story of the body anthony, the longest serving mayor in rhode island history. he was lovable and had transformed the city in providence through a city that was rated in the publications and he also presided over the breathtaking corruption ov
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he said we had a good day in johnson city. our three cafes peacefully integrated today. and when that conversation ended it just about brought tears to my eyes as these two guys, mortal political enemies agreed, it's been a good day. and it was a good day for america. >> ladies and gentlemen, a round of applause for nick kotz.
he said we had a good day in johnson city. our three cafes peacefully integrated today. and when that conversation ended it just about brought tears to my eyes as these two guys, mortal political enemies agreed, it's been a good day. and it was a good day for america. >> ladies and gentlemen, a round of applause for nick kotz.
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. >> for more information on book tv recent visit to providence, rhineland, and the miniature cities visited by our local content vehicles could to c-span.org / local content. >> next on book tv, henry gallagher recalls his assignment as officer in charge of the security detail for james maraniss, the first african-american admitted to the university of mississippi in september 1962. this is about 60 meant -- 40 minutes. >> thank you, ralph, john. my gratitude to lover of congress for hosting the event. i will try to put into 30 minutes with happened to me 50 years yo was a reflection. this is my tenth but event says the book was published in september, and each event is different, its audience is different to me to the questions a different. i was a 23-year-old r.o.t.c. second lieutenant from a small liberal arts college in minnesota sent down to mississippi to -- along with 15 or 19,000 other federal soldiers to quell the riot, put down a riot. i was not aware what we are doing in order going because the county administration had put a clamp on public disclosure. not until we get t
. >> for more information on book tv recent visit to providence, rhineland, and the miniature cities visited by our local content vehicles could to c-span.org / local content. >> next on book tv, henry gallagher recalls his assignment as officer in charge of the security detail for james maraniss, the first african-american admitted to the university of mississippi in september 1962. this is about 60 meant -- 40 minutes. >> thank you, ralph, john. my gratitude to lover of...
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visited by our local content vehicles, go to c-span.org/localcontent. >> and now a panel from miami book fair international on president obama. this is about an hour 5 minutes. 15 minutes. [applause] >> good afternoon. what day for a great discussion. we have a great panel today, and welcome to this 29th year of the book fair miami, miami book fair international. i'm the new kid on the block, so if you're raising your hand and have never been here, i join you in that. what an event, to see so many people here year after year, a very popular event, and today's no exception. we have a great panel joining us today. i'd like to introduce them. we have just a short amount of time today with three great authors, so we'll get started. david maraniss is talking about his book, "barack obama: the story." he'll be following up michael grunwald, he's joining us, he's going to be speaking on the new new deal, the hidden story of change in the obama era. but to lead off our discussion today is neil barofsky on "the bailout." so let's give a big round of applause. cbs-4 has been here for ten year
visited by our local content vehicles, go to c-span.org/localcontent. >> and now a panel from miami book fair international on president obama. this is about an hour 5 minutes. 15 minutes. [applause] >> good afternoon. what day for a great discussion. we have a great panel today, and welcome to this 29th year of the book fair miami, miami book fair international. i'm the new kid on the block, so if you're raising your hand and have never been here, i join you in that. what an event,...
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we really tried to embrace that part of our mission by working with the city, members of my staff along with me, participate in the creative providence plan. we also collaborate with over 100 organizations here in the city. and have built those collaborations over the last six or seven years in a way that has helped put us more in the forefront of the activity of a community versus really the perception of an old historic library that is merely a repository of books on a dusty shelf, but more of an institution that is leading the past teach it to be relevant in the future. >> u.s. senator sheldon whitehouse is next from providence, rhode island. his book is "on virtues: quotations and insights to live a full, honorable, and truly american life." >> we were coming on that dreadful field and we are passing through the open ranks of the superb brigade of infantry. we were bracket and we had no shoes. that banners are army had formed at the heights of gettysburg were bloody and insurance. there were less than a thousand of us with arms in our hand. no, they were bright and burnished steel b
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we both use foreign language in our poetry. he tends to use sanskrit. i don't use much sanskrit. i don't actually know much sanskrit. as one of those kids who got a got a new to during sanskrit class in kansas city, sort of look out the window. [laughter] i use yiddish sound. i think it's fair to say that t.s. eliot was not partial to yiddish. my shortest palm using skittish. they shortest palm is called something like the societal political and philosophical implications of the o.j. simpson trial. title does that count in the links. and the poem once jack, oy vey. fastmac and also in yugoslavia started to break up, i did a palm that had croatians are the good guys now, although their past is somewhat shady, so worry not that these same guys chased both your would be in your cd. [laughter] with both use a little german. when george w. bush appointed a known family retainer to the attorney general, i did a column that ran alberto gonzales with loyal umbrellas. and we both read about animals than times. he famously wrote a lot of things about cat. my daughter said once at the dinne
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in fact, if our entire country were to share new york city's accident rate, we would save 24,000 lives a year. there's a big difference between urban living and suburban or rural living in terms of that aspect of our lives. again, the short term, we can build places -- in the long term, build places to be safer, but long term, live in urban environment. dick jackson asked the question in chai environment, what city are you likely to die in a pool of blood? that's how he puts it to the audience, and they compared murder by strangers, crime to car crashes and added the two together, and portland, vancouver, and seattle, and all three places, 15% safer in the inner city than the suburbs because of the combination of the two. we move to the suburbs for the safety of the children; right? finally, asthma, who talks about asthma? four teen americans die every day from asthma. that's not a huge amount, but it's three times the rate of the 1990s. it's due to automotive exhaust, entirely. i mean, 90-whatever percent. pollution is not what it used to be. the sickest places in america are those wh
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major cities, by the time the dealers cut it into little gram bags and dilute it, you can get 100,000 or 150,000 for even more for that exact same kilogram. if you sent it by fedex, it would cost you maybe a hundred, two hundred bucks or something? but instead we keep escalating the drug war, and the greater the risk to each trafficker along that smuggling route, the higher the likelihood they get caught, the greater the threat to themselves, the greater risk premium they can charge the next perp down the smuggling line. so through the drug war we actually create a tremendous indirect price support, if you will, for drug traffickers. and so the people who -- the last people who want this drug war to end are the traffickers themselves, because without it they're basically transporting minimally-processed agricultural commodities that don't fetch a lot of money, and the drug warriors. it's a symbiotic dependency they have. they both need each other to keep their jobs and maintain their livelihoods. so if you legalize, if you ended the drug war, you take away the risks, and suddenly it b
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visited by our local content vehicles, go to c-span.org/localcontent. >> my name is c. morgan grefe, and i'm executive director of the rhode island historical society. and right now we're here up in the stacks of the rhode island historical society library on the east side of providence. today we have an asourcement of -- assortment of books from our collection. the first two books that i want to start with today are actually related to roger williams, probably the most famous founder of rhode island. there were more than one for the colony of rhode island, so roncher williams gets the most attention, and these books are some of the reasons why. the first book we're going to look at today is called "the key into the language of america." and it was published in 1643. it's an original binding, so it is kept in this case. this book is 1643, and it is the first-ever dictionary of an indian language in english. this is an original printing printed by gregory dexter, so these are london imprints. these were not printed in the colony of rhode island. but this became an amazin
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off of the elevator at city hall. her words told why there were parts of museums that black people could not visit and why some restaurants refused to serve us and why hotels wouldn't give us rooms and why theaters would only allow us to watch the picture shows from the balcony. but her words gave us hope. she asked us simply -- answered us simply, because they just don't understand that everyone is the same. but some day it will be better. and my brother, m.l., looked up into our mother's face and said the words that i remember to this day. looking up at mother dear and he said, mother dear, one day i'm going to turn this world upsidedown. do i need to go on? i think that's enough. [applause] there's one thing i want you to participate in. at the end of the book, there is a poem that a teacher said to me on the observance of the first holiday in memory of my brother and it is entitled, "you can be like martin." i will read some of this poem and i want you to answer me. it says, you can be like martin, yes, you can. c
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we send people to jail, and our sheriff high profile trials in new york city. in your city is very dynamic i have had a terrorist case over if you name it i have had it. >> host: had to separate your personal life and professional life i assume is consuming position. >> in 1970 i did believe we needed more transparency of what federal court judges do. whole trick is to bridge the gap so wanted a book that was not academic boring but one that people could learn more about there is such a need for that. >> host: use that on the bench for a long time. >> is in the book. one of the profound this race riots from new york city, the one where the two hedge fund guys were acquitted, said trial involving one of the german clubs and on and on. i look back i cannot believe i have had these trials but i feel blessed to be a federal court judge in new york. >> host: author judge block this road. thank you very much. >> i like to begin with the story when evening 1954 as the nixon and exited to come across an indian woman sitting on a bench outside the banquet hall. should r
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we get our share of so-called high profile trials because we sit in new york city. i had the gotti trial, and light in new york city is a very dynamic type of judgeship because we really are pretty much with the action is at. i've had terrorist cases, you name it, we have had. >> how do you separate your professional life from your personal life? >> well, i sort of like to believe i have an integrator have an integrated life. i'm a musician. i wrote this book for the first time at the tender age of 78. the reason i did that is because i really believe that we need more transparency about what the federal court justices do, are all about. the public doesn't have a lot of awareness or understanding of the whole trip was to be able to try to bridge that gap. will be an entertaining book and book at its same time people learn an awful lot about what we're all about, how we run our courts, how you become a federal court judge. there is a need for that. >> you sat on the bench for a long time. can you tell is one of your biggest cases because i've had a lot of them. of co
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visited by our local content vehicles, go to c-span.org/localcontent. >> over the last few weeks, the tv has aired several best of 2012 booklist which are all available at booktv.org. we also sat down with sarah weinman of publishers marketplace and bob mentioned shiner of "usa today" to discuss the past year and a little area -- literary world. to watch that conversation and more this at booktv.org and search 2012 year in books. >> amy greenberg recounts the mexican-american war in 1846. the author recounts president polk's decision to go to war and the roles that then congressman abraham lincoln and henry clay played in the national debate. this is about an hour. >> thanks, denise. i want to thank everybody who's been so nice to be here at the abraham lincoln presidential center. i've seen the benito juÁrez exhibit which i encourage all of you to go see when there isn't some very big event going on over there, like there is right now. it's a fantastic show, and really the relationship between juÁrez and lincoln is so really intriguing. what i want to talk to you guys about today i
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the city that is more bridges than any other city in the world is pittsburgh, pennsylvania romney said. congratulations. congratulations to pittsburgh, chancellor merkel last? president romney thought for a moment. now, just congratulations. stephen harper, prime minister of canada china group in nature introduced himself to president romney. are you a french-canadian origin? president romney said no i'm not the prime minister replied, but i am canadian. this states michigan is the petoskey's the president said. then spotting a few feet away status, are you french-canadian origin? now, i'm david cameron, prime minister of the united kingdom. president romney looked at kamran and ben harper and cameron again. brothers he said? cousins? uncle and aunts. no cameron said. at that point the group boys joined by yoshiko nardo of japan. he and president romney were introduced. what are you run 55 or 60 the president announced? in a close? and 56 years of age the japanese prime minister said rather formally. yoshiko sans french-canadian. [laughter] i don't suppose you're french-canadian origin
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the city was a drowned -- downtrodden city. he would go on national tv and go on the dawn show when it was really popular and sing the city's praises. people loved him for that. they figured we have ours had corruption but at least he made us feel good about ourselves. he help but providence back on the map. so that is why people loved him. >> for more information on booktv's recent visit to providence rhode island and the many other cities those visited by local content videos go to c-span.org/localcontent. now on booktv sarah gordon talks about religious cases in u.s. history to transform the laws of the country and eliminated protection to religion in the u.s. constitution. this interview part of booktv's college series was recorded at the university of pennsylvania will -- pennsylvania. it's about 20 minutes. >> university of pennsylvania professor sarah gordon, "the spirit of the law" is her most recent book. what do you mean when you talk about the old constitutional world and the new constitutional world when it comes to
the city was a drowned -- downtrodden city. he would go on national tv and go on the dawn show when it was really popular and sing the city's praises. people loved him for that. they figured we have ours had corruption but at least he made us feel good about ourselves. he help but providence back on the map. so that is why people loved him. >> for more information on booktv's recent visit to providence rhode island and the many other cities those visited by local content videos go to...
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the bombs left for us, for 215 days we threw ourselves at the city and walked back into hurricane point. headquarters 100 meters away, our marines read our reports and they passed between us without noticing anyone. so, i go into that with the book because war is where i arrived after a life essentially of chasing endangerment to a certain extent. the uncertainty of it all fascinated me, as does my environment, just by nature. so the book ends up being very much about our landscape, how we perceive it as fascinating in our youth, and how over time, it changes. the same substance, stone, rock, water, wood, guess from being the unknown, worthy of curiosity, to at some point being a threat, and the natural defiance of us living our lives, which is in defiance of our mortality, all the way. from childhood lower, immortal, to our elder years, where we become the archive, where we become the thing which holds so many people we have lost and is what survives. memory is what survives, and within that memory, the afterlife of so much. so, thank you. [applause] >> good afternoon. i'd also like to
the bombs left for us, for 215 days we threw ourselves at the city and walked back into hurricane point. headquarters 100 meters away, our marines read our reports and they passed between us without noticing anyone. so, i go into that with the book because war is where i arrived after a life essentially of chasing endangerment to a certain extent. the uncertainty of it all fascinated me, as does my environment, just by nature. so the book ends up being very much about our landscape, how we...
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our member be make a reporter at the providence journal, not covering fattier city hall at the time. it's another reporter's backyard cookout in the summer and we were sitting around drinking and buddy pulls up in his limousine. it was in a politician making a token appearance. he was there were for hours. he was one of the last persons to leave. so he was a chance and at the city of providence. the city was a downtrodden city. he would go on national tv and it was really popular and sigma cities praises and people loved him for that. they figure with always had corruption. it predates buddy and post a thin, but at least he makes us feel good about ourselves. we see hope of providence back on the map. so that's why people loved him. >> i am buddy of cellar stories bookstores. we have a new england with the bookstore that you will find. this is the greatest job in the world. it's just never knowing which are going to see, what books will comment to the store, what people will come into the store. we've had fitness authors come into the store, shopping. we've had people performing in r
our member be make a reporter at the providence journal, not covering fattier city hall at the time. it's another reporter's backyard cookout in the summer and we were sitting around drinking and buddy pulls up in his limousine. it was in a politician making a token appearance. he was there were for hours. he was one of the last persons to leave. so he was a chance and at the city of providence. the city was a downtrodden city. he would go on national tv and it was really popular and sigma...
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in major cities. and i think the answer is, i think would be very helpful to have or more asian-americans as members of congress. and, of course, if you had a governor who's now our ambassador, who is our secretary of commerce who is now our ambassador to beijing. and if you believe the chinese on the street, the most popularword of think in -- popular ambassador of any in china today, so popular that some members of the chinese government think he's too popular. and he's a good friend of terry's and also of mine. so i would hope to see of that going forward. >> at the time of the formation of the euro, the three-tier euro was considered but not adopted. an unfortunate result of this has been that the mediterranean countries so largely dependent on tourism have become, well, they're really not competitive. is it time to reconsider the three-tier euro in that an important effect would be a very substantial developing of the mediterranean cups, and that should -- mediterranean countries, and that should
in major cities. and i think the answer is, i think would be very helpful to have or more asian-americans as members of congress. and, of course, if you had a governor who's now our ambassador, who is our secretary of commerce who is now our ambassador to beijing. and if you believe the chinese on the street, the most popularword of think in -- popular ambassador of any in china today, so popular that some members of the chinese government think he's too popular. and he's a good friend of...
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we really try to embrace that part of our mission by working with the city. the members of the staff and those that participated in the creative process. we also collaborate with over 100 organizations here in the city. we have filled those collaborations over the last six or seven years in the way that has put this up in the forefront in the activity of the community versus the perception of an old historic library that is a depository of books from a dusty shelf. but more of an institution that is letting the past teach it to be relevant in the future. >> u.s. senator sheldon whitehouse is next. his book is "on virtues: quotations and insight to live a full, honorable, and truly american life". >> we were coming and we were passing through the open ranks of the other day. we were ragged and we had no shoes. gettysburg was bloody and in shreds. there were 8000 of us. this is a book that is a somewhat personal and quirky book. but it is one person's book through history and to what people have said in the past to talk about things that have meaning that i thi
we really try to embrace that part of our mission by working with the city. the members of the staff and those that participated in the creative process. we also collaborate with over 100 organizations here in the city. we have filled those collaborations over the last six or seven years in the way that has put this up in the forefront in the activity of the community versus the perception of an old historic library that is a depository of books from a dusty shelf. but more of an institution...
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had appeared in new york city and manhattan. the time said photographed at a major reference to the work we are going to talk about today. and i think a classic status was enhanced by the seemingly never ending decades of controversy in which the defenders, alger hiss, tried to slander the author of "witness." today i want to introduce this three panelists, and this is an amazingly powerful group. leave it to them, they will take it over each making their remarks about 10 minutes and then we will open it for further discussion. elliott abrams has had a remarkable string of positions of enormous importance. i have known him going back to the early reagan years. it began my knowledge with human rights. that was really something intellectually. part of the convention of human rights and the state department. in charge of latin american affairs and in positions in the white house. in every case that he really always brought deeply moral and intellectual round into the work that he was doing in practice and in policy. and now, he is
had appeared in new york city and manhattan. the time said photographed at a major reference to the work we are going to talk about today. and i think a classic status was enhanced by the seemingly never ending decades of controversy in which the defenders, alger hiss, tried to slander the author of "witness." today i want to introduce this three panelists, and this is an amazingly powerful group. leave it to them, they will take it over each making their remarks about 10 minutes and...
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we've really tried to embrace that part of our mission by working with the city, members of my staff, along with me, participatedded in the creative -- participated in the creative providence plan. we collaborate with other organizations in the city, and we built those collaborations over the last six or seven years in such a way that put us at the forefront of the participation of the community really at the perception of an old historic library that's a depository and more of an institution that is letting the past teach it to be relevant in the future. >> for more information on booktv's visit to rhode island and others visited by the local content vehicle, go to c-span.org/low -- c-span.org/localcontent. >> this is about an hour and a half. >> muchos graciuos. i'm on a train to barcelona a few years ago, and the woman next to me is not just a professor, but the head of their press, and i understand you were with the embassy? i thought to tell some stories, and she said would you write that book for us? i said, sure. it was the fastest contract i ever got in my life. that is, and i
we've really tried to embrace that part of our mission by working with the city, members of my staff, along with me, participatedded in the creative -- participated in the creative providence plan. we collaborate with other organizations in the city, and we built those collaborations over the last six or seven years in such a way that put us at the forefront of the participation of the community really at the perception of an old historic library that's a depository and more of an institution...
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find relocation basis stall because the wealthy families controlled most of the land in and around the city but it was a clan like they been an unofficial as diligent and cautious as ban ki-moon would have made such a statement without knowing that people would be relocated soon or at least wear. he knew something we didn't. i ran to ask you more but after a few days he was in the local spy cameras and then i saw sean penn walking alone. i reach the actor before the population spokesman came over to introduce a blushing colic and ask questions. with a plan for the rain the spokesman asked and to my surprise the actor answered in detail. what is the plan or what should be the plan penn replied drawing in an impatient breath. what should be the plan is total location. penn started getting the answer to the secretary-general hadn't and his delivery was everything band wasn't. demonstrative vivid and intense. you can can forgive all those wearing heel is that it. he was handsome if weathered by 49 years on earth around hollow cheeks and a pair of aviator sunglasses dangling from his neck line.
find relocation basis stall because the wealthy families controlled most of the land in and around the city but it was a clan like they been an unofficial as diligent and cautious as ban ki-moon would have made such a statement without knowing that people would be relocated soon or at least wear. he knew something we didn't. i ran to ask you more but after a few days he was in the local spy cameras and then i saw sean penn walking alone. i reach the actor before the population spokesman came...
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late and great chairman of citi, walter or riston. walter, again, when you talk about bill and you talk about walter, you're talking about icons in this field. now, every single treasury secretary would come to see walter riston, and there were problems in around general teen that, there were -- argentina, there were problems in uruguay, there was problems in peru, there was problems in brazil, there was problems in mexico, there was problems in jamaica, there was problems in panama, there was problems in korea, in japan, then we came over here and went back to the european crisis, we went down to south africa where there were problems. and in every case the treasury secretary would come and say, look, walter, i need help. we don't have these kind of people at the treasury. can you offer up somebody, you know, that would understand this and be able to deal with it? now, walter riston would always say i've got the person. the person's name is bill rhodes. but you can't take him, you can only borrow him on that. and so, you know, and he
late and great chairman of citi, walter or riston. walter, again, when you talk about bill and you talk about walter, you're talking about icons in this field. now, every single treasury secretary would come to see walter riston, and there were problems in around general teen that, there were -- argentina, there were problems in uruguay, there was problems in peru, there was problems in brazil, there was problems in mexico, there was problems in jamaica, there was problems in panama, there was...
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providence, the renaissance city so tourism in providence has really picked up over the past and are 15 years. we do get an awful lot of tourists coming in, people who use their vacations to go looking for books at different cities, and that has been a real boost to the store. we have a 2-volume first edition of madam boveri published in french. that is relatively scarce. there aren't too many of those surviving. and once i get a call from a person in providence who got a donation. he was running some kind of outreach program, and it was a donation of books. and about eight or ten of them have been signed by ernest hemingway, and that was a really great find. there were other books in their signed by barnaby conrad, who was an altar that wrote about bullfights, so it was related to hemingway who was also a physician of bullfights. and there was a book signed by john steinbeck. it was just a great catch. when we get something like that it cannot be they collectors or other dealers, they are quick to come in and make purchases. we started out as a pretty small store and it slowly grew
providence, the renaissance city so tourism in providence has really picked up over the past and are 15 years. we do get an awful lot of tourists coming in, people who use their vacations to go looking for books at different cities, and that has been a real boost to the store. we have a 2-volume first edition of madam boveri published in french. that is relatively scarce. there aren't too many of those surviving. and once i get a call from a person in providence who got a donation. he was...
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>> well, certainly i think there's lots of other interesting things about this city. but as someone who's lived here more time than anywhere else, i also say that crime is a very big part of our life here, no matter where you live, no matter who you are. i worry every day because some of you may be to pay for may know that my street lights have been out for a good long time. i worry about my wife and kids walking from garage to building every day because the lights are out and it's dangerous. so you can get too caught up in it. it doesn't define my life, but it does give contour. it does shape decisions i make every day in the decisions i ask a wife and kids to make every day. but i certainly didn't mean to suggest that's the only thing that's interesting, either about the book, which is not about crime, but does give you a good sense of the role that crime plays here. abby imac >> i thought we did. >> autosave marcia is one of the stars of the book. we actually met funnily enough that a different path -- not a talk i was giving, but someone who is even a lecture on b
>> well, certainly i think there's lots of other interesting things about this city. but as someone who's lived here more time than anywhere else, i also say that crime is a very big part of our life here, no matter where you live, no matter who you are. i worry every day because some of you may be to pay for may know that my street lights have been out for a good long time. i worry about my wife and kids walking from garage to building every day because the lights are out and it's...
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place in the oblivious city where my slogan gleamed and recovered. it seems to me that in the best writing in any form, we are all the time getting these imperceptible dress from description to reflection and the essays that. we are crossing back and forth all the time between the metaphysical streets of the physical town. thank you, it is 12:05 p.m. exactly. you can have some lunch. [applause] >> the final panel from the key west literary seminar begins now. it features edmund white and those rows. this is about 40 minutes. >> good morning. or good afternoon. everything that geoff dyer said is true. you may not go to lunch. [laughter] it is my privilege, these panelists, they are among my dearest and oldest friends. so the idea that we got to be flown to key west to sit up here and talk to each other about our greatest literary passion for free seems like a dream. today is going to be unlike some other episodes. it is serious business here and we have a lot to talk about. .. half written and then ask you what it is that drew you to these particular
place in the oblivious city where my slogan gleamed and recovered. it seems to me that in the best writing in any form, we are all the time getting these imperceptible dress from description to reflection and the essays that. we are crossing back and forth all the time between the metaphysical streets of the physical town. thank you, it is 12:05 p.m. exactly. you can have some lunch. [applause] >> the final panel from the key west literary seminar begins now. it features edmund white and...
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but we also have city governments, we have state governments in the united states, we have a federal government in the united states, and i think it's only natural that another layer of government that deals with global issues will evolve. it won't happen soon. it's a hundred years away. but over the course of the next hundred years, in the lives of our children and grandchildren, we're going to see progress to it. a big question, though, is whether the balance between the power of those public entities and big, private enterprises that are the size of most of the biggest countries in the world also remains in balance. right now our future is being determined in financial markets that aren't regulated
but we also have city governments, we have state governments in the united states, we have a federal government in the united states, and i think it's only natural that another layer of government that deals with global issues will evolve. it won't happen soon. it's a hundred years away. but over the course of the next hundred years, in the lives of our children and grandchildren, we're going to see progress to it. a big question, though, is whether the balance between the power of those public...
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i grew up in atlanta, the same city he was in. i kind of noticed it. my father had a lot of black employees at the time, the dry cleaning plant. the only time i ever heard it mentioned was -- he had one of his favorite employees he had a bet on the atlanta crackers baseball game every day and sometimes my dad would take me to those games in the 50's and we would have to separate at ponce de leon ball park in orlando because peter had to go sit in the colored section. that's the only time i ever -- my dad would say i don't like this. but he wouldn't invite comment because i was like it was dangerous. there was nothing he could do about it. it was kind of ominous clouds but you know, you couldn't do anything about the weather. so i grew up in that atmosphere, which was quite common in the south. and not until birmingham really did it break through and occur to me that really could be something done about it on the strength of the courage of these people, many of whom -- you know, in birmingham they were girls and little kids. the or eight, nine, 10-years
i grew up in atlanta, the same city he was in. i kind of noticed it. my father had a lot of black employees at the time, the dry cleaning plant. the only time i ever heard it mentioned was -- he had one of his favorite employees he had a bet on the atlanta crackers baseball game every day and sometimes my dad would take me to those games in the 50's and we would have to separate at ponce de leon ball park in orlando because peter had to go sit in the colored section. that's the only time i ever...
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my wife and i took our first family vacation to georgia lee that, illinois, which is a koa koa city mississippi town. i found a rare book shelf and found a book full of newspaper. it was april 21st, 1865 "new york times" i was reading the about the lincoln's csh that triggered an intense passion for history i had never had. for the next five years it became a journey of meticulous of collecting of newspaper. i'm tucked away in the midwest. i don't have convenient ak is eases to a lot of the wonderful archives on the east coast. i don't have access a lot of the originals that are found in the library and institution across the country. i made a point to collect them. much like my other historical collectible. they are available for sale or purchase. if any has seen "american pickers" i would say it's like that. i would say i'm like that more along the license of historic documents and newspaper. i'm traversing the earth trying to find and locate and take newspapers out of rare book shops and european book dealers and people dishoiferred them in at dicks and behind balls of old homes. it's an exc
my wife and i took our first family vacation to georgia lee that, illinois, which is a koa koa city mississippi town. i found a rare book shelf and found a book full of newspaper. it was april 21st, 1865 "new york times" i was reading the about the lincoln's csh that triggered an intense passion for history i had never had. for the next five years it became a journey of meticulous of collecting of newspaper. i'm tucked away in the midwest. i don't have convenient ak is eases to a lot...
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post them to our wall at facebook.com/booktv. or e-mail@booktv@c-span.org. >>> we're working with jefferson "snow-storm in august." what happened in washington, d.c., in 1835? >> francis scott key was the bring attorney and the city authorities lost all control of the city. it was the beginning of the conflict over slavery. the ideological conflict over slave i are and the white population started attacking the free black population that was active in the antislavery movement. it was wide spread disorder. he was responsible and it was a humiliation for him and the city. >> it started with a man named arthur bowen. who is that? >> a servant 19 years old in the home of anna marie, a well-known women in washington. he was alleged to have attacked her in her bedroom at night with the ax. it was sensational news of the alleged attack that set off the white population to attack the black population. in fact, there was no attack. >> how did they find out ? >> eventually arthur went on trial and all of washington was startled when mrs. t
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of records about the administration of violent crime in the city for one year. and it's a little different than her question, but it gets to the heart of how you're monitoring the system. and to this day, it remains one of the most interesting things we've ever done. and at the time it was quite revolutionary probably because we had a good friend who knew how to program computers, also a journalist. and we were able to feed into this, these computers all of this massive information about muraleds, robberies, things of that sort, who were the judges who were weak for those criminals, who were tough on them, who were the district attorneys who were tough and the ones who weren't, who were the defense attorneys who seemed to show up in case after case after case. it was quite a different kind of animal that was made possible by the sudden emergence of pretty sophisticated computer programming. >> host: in some of your old work, is that available online do you know? >> guest: there's samples of it on our web site. that go all the way back, i think the first story we
of records about the administration of violent crime in the city for one year. and it's a little different than her question, but it gets to the heart of how you're monitoring the system. and to this day, it remains one of the most interesting things we've ever done. and at the time it was quite revolutionary probably because we had a good friend who knew how to program computers, also a journalist. and we were able to feed into this, these computers all of this massive information about...
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program these things, we are massed thousands of records about the administration of violent crime in the city for one year ended is a little different than her question but gets to the heart of monitoring the systems so to this day one of the most interesting things we have ever done and at the time it was quite revolutionary because we have a good friend who knew how to program computers, also would journalist and we were able to feed into these computers all of this massive information about murders, robberies, things of that sort. who were the judges? who were tough on them? with the district attorney's? who were the defense attorneys who seemed to show up in case after case? it was quite a different kind of animal that was made possible by the sudden emergence of 3 sophisticated computer programming. >> host: is your old work at the philadelphia inquirer available online? >> guest: there are samples of it on our web site that go all the way back. the first story we did was on the web site, not woolsey's. others -- if anybody is interested in something, just write to us and we will see if
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you moved toward the freer environment of the city. you moved from the south to the north. that is what most people did. in the process of doing that some of them became politicized. >> host: because they expected things to be markedly different in the north. they didn't think racism existed in the north. >> guest: in the north they are not going to be murdered for taking a stand. and so in a relatively freer environment they are able to create the conditions for the modern movement. >> host: talk about some of the people of the movement. there is sncc and the clc and the others. who were the people who most move things? was a king? king? was it malcolm x? was at the death of medgar evers? was a stokely carmichael or john lewis? >> guest: all of them have different roles. one of the ways in which i try to explain to students that parks made martin luther king possible. if she hadn't done what she did by refusing to give seat on that montgomery bus martin luther king would have simply been an articulate well meaning baptist minister. is because of rosa parks that we are talk
you moved toward the freer environment of the city. you moved from the south to the north. that is what most people did. in the process of doing that some of them became politicized. >> host: because they expected things to be markedly different in the north. they didn't think racism existed in the north. >> guest: in the north they are not going to be murdered for taking a stand. and so in a relatively freer environment they are able to create the conditions for the modern...
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sit in new york city. i had a trial and the bear stearns trial and life in new york city is a very dynamic judgeship because we are pretty much where the action bar. i've had cases you name it we haven't. >> how to use separate your professional and personal life? i'm guessing this is a consuming stomach i like to believe i have an integrated life. i'm a musician, i wrote this book at the age of 78. i never thought i would be doing that but the reason i did that is because i really believed that we need more transparency and out with a federal judge is doing and what we are all about. the public doesn't have a lot of awareness or understanding to get the whole trick is to be able to try to bridge that gap and a federal court judge that's not an academic book or a boring book but the sort of book that at the same time people will learn an awful lot about how we run the courts and how you become a federal court judge. there is such a need for that. >> you sat on the bench for a long time now. can you tell us
sit in new york city. i had a trial and the bear stearns trial and life in new york city is a very dynamic judgeship because we are pretty much where the action bar. i've had cases you name it we haven't. >> how to use separate your professional and personal life? i'm guessing this is a consuming stomach i like to believe i have an integrated life. i'm a musician, i wrote this book at the age of 78. i never thought i would be doing that but the reason i did that is because i really...